The Compliance Insider 

Last Friday, it was announced that Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be stepping down in February. In her role as CMS administrator, she oversaw government... Read More

Understandably, the first of the year presents its fair share of challenges for health care professionals and organizations. For many of us, especially during the first of the year, it is easier to keep tabs on our... Read More

Will the Personal Data Notification and Protection Act impact current breach notification requirements? President Obama is calling for a national standard for data breach notification. The proposed standard will... Read More

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yet another delay for ICD-10. This time, the delay will benefit providers. CMS has pushed out the ICD-10 testing deadline to January 21, 2015. CMS will use... Read More

A Two-Part Series on Attestation Requirements and Training. In addition to Meaningful Use Attestation requirements, many insurance companies are asking for Annual Compliance Attestation for organizations to validate... Read More

Recently a question was asked about providing a patient medical record in electronic format: If you store patient information in your systems electronically, should a copy of the medical record be provided to the... Read More

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the bidding timeline for Round 2 Recompete and the national mail-order recompete of the Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and... Read More

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the Federal IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020. The Strategic Plan is currently... Read More

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavennar recently announced new rules that strengthen oversight of Medicare providers. The new safeguards are designed to prevent physicians... Read More

A data brief released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) revealed the top reasons for EHR adoption. The need to share patient information with other providers and the use of financial... Read More